Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-09-09
THE HAWAIIAN REVOLUTION
IT WAS WELL PLANNED, BUT
WRETCHEDLY EXECUTED.

Inc 6Overnment In the Hands Of Mere
cenary Gospel Sharps and Sugar.
Planters-How They Propose to Con.
troll the Bulk Of the People-Etc.
| WAlALuA, HAWAIIAN IsLANDs,)
| August 9Th, 1887.
To TIE EprTol OF TIE TINES -
For the psrusal of your readers
who are mostly enjoying peace and
prosperity under the Jaws Of the
great American Republic, I will give
you q few facts in regard to the lates.
constitutional trick and one horse rev.
olution that took place here in the
Islands that seems to have created a
sensation in American journals, mostly
in regard to the future destiny Of this
country.
AT the time the late revolution was
concocted, very shortly after the close
OF our Legislature Chat was composed
mostly of bullock. thieves. Hawaiian
Judges and callow-pated Kanakas,
with light sprinkling of honest men)
it was understood by our foreign pop
ulation who joined the league to be
for the purpose of dethron'ng King
kalakaua and forming a republican
government under the Hawaiian flag,
and at some future time to transfer
the Islands to the United States Of
America, when that nation should
feel DESTROYS Of taking US under her
protecting wing. The interest taken
by the whites Of various nationalities
was so great that nearly the unani.
nous foreign population either be.
longed to the revolutionary league or
had pledged themselves to it's support
IN order to secure a republican form
of government.
A few Of our leading capitalists
were trusted with the planning of the
grandest and most submissive rebel.
lion that was never intended to take
place. 1t was carried to the arming
OF our citizens and there stopped, dis
uniting and creating a division in
their ranks that now bids fur to ere.
ate in future a genuine revolution
that will probably end in the de.
thronement of King Kalakaua and the
party now in power who so treacher-
ously betrayed their supporters and
the trust placed in their hands, by al
lowing an unworthy and VIGOROUSLY
incompetent King to remain on the
Hawaiian throne, only to act as
tool for the ministry that may chance
to rule the country hereafter.
The present constitution, drawn up
by the plant. ton aud missionary inter
ests combined, will give the whites
here not the least encouragement un.
less they happen to belong to some
rich moneyed syndicate or hold in
terests in our plantations that have
been built up from an American
treaty and Chinese cheap labor. The
Anglo-Saxon, unless he can show
certificate as belonging to planters
syndicate, will stand about an equal
show for right and justice, under our
present constitution, as a Mycronicia
slave would after being delivered into
the hands of Feejian man. eater.
will here take the liberty of quot
ing Article Al, which reads as follows:
The Cabinet shall be appointed and
commissioned by the King, and shall
be removed by him only upon a vote
of want of confidence passed by a
ma ority of all the elective me mbers
of the Legislature. No act of the
King shall have any effect unless it
be countersigned by member of his
Cabinet.
Under this section if the King
should appoint, by accident or other
wise, a set of notorious corruptionists
to serve as his Cabinet, the people at
large would be compelled to bear
their Affections, for there is no power
granted the people in the constitution
to remove them-unless it be the
power behind the bayonet-until the
converting of our Legislature, which
is only allowed to asse mble once every
two years.
Articles So and SO allow "a mobiles
to be elected to serve with the repre-
sentatives SIX years, without pay.
They are already being chosen frog
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